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Comment Posted delivery guidelines (Score 1) 459

by trumpetboy8282 on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @12:32AM (#35275792) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers?

Some organizations publish their delivery guidelines. For example, UCLA's delivery guidelines are available here: http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/guidelines.php The most common reason UCLA's servers reject mail is due to improper rDNS records.

Comment Typo (Score 1) 77

by trumpetboy8282 on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @07:57PM (#33504470) Attached to: White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack

There is a big difference between mediate.com and mediaite.com...

Comment SVG? (Score 1) 292

by trumpetboy8282 on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @05:59PM (#30676344) Attached to: Microsoft Wants To Participate In SVG Development

I just find it amusing that the image shown in TFA as "SVG" is actually a PNG...

Submission + - New iPod Checksum Cracked (kde.org) 1

Submitted by on Sunday September 16, 2007 @06:41PM

An anonymous reader writes: After 36 hours of reverse engineering, the method for producing the checksum on new iPods has been discovered.

Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile 335

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday August 26, 2007 @10:40AM from the to-send-better-ads dept.

mrcgran writes "Users of Skype for Linux have just found out that it reads the files /etc/passwd, firefox profile, plugins, addons, etc, and many other unnecessary files in /etc. This fact was originally discovered by using AppArmor, but others have confirmed this fact using strace on versions 1.4.0.94 and 1.4.0.99. What is going on? This probably shows how important it is to use AppArmor in any closed-source application in Linux to restrict any undue access to your files."

Journal Journal: Rare Japanese rollerskating robot for sale on Ebay 1

Journal by bizzykehl on Sunday April 08, 2007 @03:39PM

If you were blown away by the recent Asimo showing at CES, it turns out you can *own* the next best thing. This skateboarding/rollerskating robot works great to relieve you of office boredom, and will definitely impress anyone who catches a glimpse of him.PLEN features unique balancing skills that help him skateboard/rollerskate/walk/kick around your workspace, and you can control him from your BREW-enabled cell ph

Submission + - People Don't Hate to Make Desktop Apps.. Do They?

Submitted by Annie Peterson on Sunday April 08, 2007 @02:50PM

Annie Peterson writes: Paul Graham has been maknig the argument that desktop development is dead — That's his premise for declaring Microsoft dead as well, and he claims that no one out there likes to develop for the desktop anymore. But that's not true, or is it? Desktop development is easier, faster, more productive, and infitinetly more enjoyable — right? The question is, since Web Apps were originally built on desktop applications themselves, have the tables flipped? Or is it just wishful thinking?

Feed Which Videos Are Protected? Lawmakers Get a Lesson (nytimes.com)

From feed by nytfeed on Monday February 26, 2007 @01:12AM

Members of Congress are learning the complexities of copyright law in the wide world of blogging and video clips.

Submission + - Put a price on switching jobs.

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Sunday February 25, 2007 @11:43PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "I've been out of school for little more than a year and I have only good things to say about the job market! So far, there doesn't seem to be any lack of demand for a good .NET developer. I've got to admit, though, I feel a little disloyal at this point. Several great job offers have come my way and I've taken them. My resume is starting to make me look a bit restless and it worries me. Until now I've just chalked it up to "I'm just settling in," but now another opportunity has been dropped into my lap. Would I be digging my own grave by taking this job? It'd be my fourth job in 16 months but each offered a promotion and a 30% to 40% raise. I know better than to put a price on job satisfaction but I'm pretty certain I'd be happy there. Is being branded as a "hot potato" enough to keep you from switching? What's your price on this stigma?"

Journal Journal: Steve Ballmer, infringement claims, and an open letter

Journal by Quixotic Raindrop on Sunday February 25, 2007 @08:17PM

Here recently on /., there was a news item about an open letter to Microsoft's Steve Ballmer, essentially calling Microsoft out on their claims that Linux infringes several patents that Microsoft claims to own. I like the idea; in fact I think it's vitally important that if there is a question of trademark, patent, or copyright infringement in Linux or other OSS/Free Software that it be identified and resolved. After reading the letter, t

Journal Journal: Microsoft's Real Plan?

Journal by TemporalBeing on Sunday February 25, 2007 @05:09PM

What's Microsoft's real plan? With the advent of .Net, the Microsoft/Novell deal, the splitting of Microsoft into three major groups internally, and the impossibility of Windows being developed the same way that Vista was for the the generation of Windows it becomes quite possible that Windows as we know it - with an NT Kernel and all - is no longer the future of Windows. Just how might Microsoft surive? Check out my full blog describing

Submission + - IE7 and FF 2.0 share vulnerability

Submitted by hcmtnbiker on Sunday February 25, 2007 @12:35PM

hcmtnbiker writes: Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 share a logic flaw. The issue is actually more severe, as the two versions of the Microsoft and Mozilla browsers are not the only ones affected. The vulnerability impacts Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7, and Firefox 1.5.0.9. "In all modern browsers, form fields (used to upload user-specified files to a remote server) enjoy some added protection meant to prevent scripts from arbitrarily choosing local files to be sent, and automatically submitting the form without user knowledge. For example, ".value" parameter cannot be set or changed, and any changes to .type reset the contents of the field," said Michal Zalewski, the person that discovered the IE7 flaw. There are Proof of concepts for both IE7 and firefox

Amazon Launches Answers Service Beta 66

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 23, 2007 @06:22AM from the more-you-know dept.

Fennec writes "Amazon.com has launched a beta of a new service called Askville, yet another online answers service, flavored with "Experience Points, Levels, and Quest Coins." These coins will supposedly become useful some day on another Amazon service that's not actually open yet, Questville. If this virtual currency becomes useful, could Askville fill a place between strictly volunteer systems and pay-for-answer services like the now-defunct Google Answers? Or is it destined to fail in the already-saturated online Q&A market?"

Old Islamic Tile Patterns Show Modern Math Insight 538

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday February 23, 2007 @03:12AM from the high-tech-tetris dept.

arbitraryaardvark writes "Reuters reports that medieval Muslims made a mega math marvel. Tile patterns on middle eastern mosques display a kind of quasicrystalline effect that was unknown in the west until rediscovered by Penrose in the 1970s. 'Quasicrystalline patterns comprise a set of interlocking units whose pattern never repeats, even when extended infinitely in all directions, and possess a special form of symmetry.' It isn't known if the mosque designers understood the math behind the patterns or not."

Journal Journal: That town is going to the dogs 3

Journal by peacefinder on Friday February 23, 2007 @01:29AM

Dog Store Sign Angers Seattle Residents

SEATTLE (AP) -- A newly opened store catering to very pampered dogs, especially female dogs, is getting more than questioning looks for its name, High Maintenance Bitch.

In Wallingford no less. Freakin' beautiful.

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